Papaw Dew's Deer Camp

My dad's back yard has become a deer camp. Now we are making it cool.

A ramshackle booth made of scrap wood on a giant pallet; the floor and near wall are covered in thick, clear plastic.

The shower / latrine has been in need of painting for some time. The weather has not permitted.

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Inside a screen tent, a small portable power station with a small clamp-on fan attached to its handle and connected via cigarette lighter adapter.

A lifesaver lately. I got this little clamp-on DC fan last year or year before. I got the battery a few years ago. I don't actually know how long the battery lasts with this fan on. It went for hours and hours and only went down to about 80%. But when I turned it off for the night, I forgot to unplug it, and I found out around 40% in the morning.

A winged insect with a very long thin abdomen clinging to a mosquito net.

I am relieved to discover that half of the creatures I was accusing of being wasps or not actually wasps. They are assassin bugs, or robber flies.

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A screen tent with camo net covering the roof, the left side, and part of the front.

No, we are not going stealth.

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A tiny white pickup truck covered in streaks of green algae, with lots of leaves in the bed, in which plants are starting to sprout.

Papaw is going to tow this away to someone who wants it.

Under a screen tent roof, on top of a very sturdy iron and timber table, a stacked pair of crude wood boxes with white primer, flip-down doors secured with hasps.

These were my clothes cabinets in the tiny house. Now they are kitchen cabinets in the outdoor kitchen. Which makes more space in the tiny house for the wood stove I hope to have before autumn.

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A screen tent with the zipper door wide open, with what appears to be a bridal veil hanging across the gap.

These zippers have been giving us fits for some time now. The teeth become unmeshed quite easily. And they don't easily go back.

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Yeah you probably knew these were going to fall down, didn't you?

Stripped stalks of bamboo laid across a rack where salvaged wood is stored. The top rack has nothing to prevent them rolling off the end.

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This blog just migrated here from Blogger. Any entries you see with a date at the bottom, that date is the original post date at Blogger.

A small, rusty old trailer has ten large stalks of bamboo on it, with the branches still on. A fluffy brown Chihuahua pug stands next to the trailer.

Went down to the neighbor's to take him up on the offer of bamboo harvesting. I need some for a drying rack in the tiny house, a roof for the outhouse, and a mast and boom for a small sailboat.

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